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Was Proto-Kikongo a 5 or 7-Vowel Language? Bantu Spirantization and Vowel Merger in the Kikongo Language Cluster [PDF]
Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2019 This article addresses whether Proto-Kikongo (PK), the most recent common ancestor of the Kikongo Language Cluster (KLC), should be reconstructed with an inventory of 5 or 7 vowel phonemes. Based on the synchronic vowel systems of its descendants, the most economic reconstruction would be 5 vowels, as all present-day varieties within the KLC have 5 ...
Koen Bostoen, Heidi Goes
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Progressive vowel height harmony in Proto-Kikongo and Proto-Bantu [PDF]
Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, 2019 AbstractThe systematic comparison of the different types of progressive Vowel Height Harmony (pVHH) attested within the Kikongo Language Cluster (KLC) leads to the conclusion that this common Bantu process of long-distance assimilation cannot be reconstructed to Proto-Kikongo.
Goes, Heidi, Bostoen, Koen
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Examining variation in the expression of tense/aspect to classify the Kikongo Language Cluster [PDF]
Africana Linguistica, 2015 In this article we examine variation in the expression of tense and aspect (TA) in 23 modern and two historical Bantu language varieties belonging to Guthrie’s B40, H10 and H30 groups in order to shed light on the internal classification of the Kikongo Language Cluster (KLC). We apply the Comparative Method to this specific set of morphological data to
Dom, Sebastian, Bostoen, Koen A. G.
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Nuevas luces sobre el uso del plural en palenquero y sus orígenes kikongo
Visitas al Patio, 2013 Mucho se ha escrito sobre el artí- culo plural ma de la lengua criolla palenquera, sobre sus orígenes, africano por su forma (el prefijo ma- de la clase nominal 6 de las lenguas bantúes) y castellano, en cuanto a su funcionamiento (la marca de plural es ...
Yves Moñino
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Reflexive Morphology in the Kikongo Language Cluster: Variation and Diachrony
LanguagesThis paper provides a comparative and diachronic account of reflexive morphology in the Kikongo language cluster, a genealogically closely related group of 40+ West Coastal Bantu languages.
Sebastian Dom
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Event-centrality and the pragmatics–semantics interface in Kikongo: From predication focus to progressive aspect and vice versa [PDF]
Folia Linguistica, 2015 AbstractAcross Bantu, several polysemic markers expressing progressive aspect and so-called predication focus have been reported (
De Kind, Jasper +3 more
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Seventeenth-Century Kikongo Is Not the Ancestor of Present-Day Kikongo [PDF]
, 2018 Bostoen, Koen +1 more
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Missionárias brasileiras em Angola
Revista de Educação Popular, 2021 O artigo apresenta reflexões sobre práticas interculturais em Angola (África) narradas em 2008 por trinta religiosas da Congregação das Irmãs Catequistas Franciscanas (CICAF), ano em que a Congregação celebrava 25 anos de presença missionária entre os ...
Claricia Otto
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eJHaem, Volume 4, Issue 4, Page 977-983, November 2023., 2023 Abstract Pregnancy is accompanied by hormonal changes. These relate mainly to progesterone and placenate growth factor. Hemodynamic changes are also observed. in a sickle cell pregnant woman, all these changes have a direct effect on hypoxia. This is responsible for the polymerization of HbS.
Tite Minga Mikobi +5 more
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Art History, Volume 46, Issue 5, Page 946-977, November 2023., 2023 In seventeenth‐century Cartagena de Indias, a portcity in today's Colombia, enslaved Africans recently disembarked from the Middle Passage faced a Jesuit‐designed multisensory catechesis. The process involved listening to translations of the Christian doctrine delivered by African interpreter‐catechists enslaved by the Jesuits, often in conjunction ...
Larissa Brewer‐García +1 more
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